Khwaja Ghulam Farid Shrine

Idol worship is what extremists call it. But Sufis call it love. Here in the town of Mithankot, women share a mystical moment at the shrine of Khwaja Ghulam Farid, a revered 19th-century poet they consider a saint.

See more photos of the July 2010 story "Pakistan’s Heartland Under Threat."